VELVET ZUCCHINI SOUP
Source of Recipe
Mai
List of Ingredients
1 lb zucchin
2 pints chicken stock
1 oz butter
1 egg yolk
1/2 Tbspoons sour cream
1 Tbspoon plain flour
1 shallot
1 garlic clove
salt & pepper
Optional "special touch" topping : 1-2 thin slice of cured ham / 2 Tbspoon pine nuts…
Recipe
- Wash and slice the zucchinis ; peal and mince the shallot and crush the garlic ; bring the stock to the boil.
- Heat the butter in a large sauce pan and fry the garlic, shallot and zucchinis for 2 minutes. Spread with the flour and mix well, then slowly add the stock ; cover and let simmer for 15 minutes.
- Eventually brown the pine nuts in a non stick pan (no grease is needed) and cut the ham slice
in small strips.
- Mix the egg yolk and the cream in the soup tureen ; blend the soup. Slowly add the blended soup in the tureen while keeping whisking ; taste and adjust seasoning (if needed, reheat the soup in the saucepan for 2 minutes by simmering it before serving).
- Decorate with the ham and nuts and serve right away…
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